VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)(S/R)

It’s a very sensitive topic – more and more people are talking about it in China especially on social media platform. Its not just a problem between the women and her male leadership – it’s also vice versa. Of course its affair unfair – very realistic but this is reality – maybe it is aggressive but also sophisticated. It’s not easy to judge whether it’s bad or good – I feel I should take care be careful around about that woman – I should keep an eye on her – she may be too smart too clever. Just watch, be careful. Im pretty sure she knows how to take advantages of her strengths to get what she wants.

Working hard is my biggest strength.

I’m so lucky and I‘m working at an advertising company and I think that the company culture is a little bit different than another industries because we are so – the people are so ambitious and straight forward – we express what we want to say in a very straight forward manner/way – if I yell to my team member…

It’s depends on what kind of business you want to get.

If you work with the Korean clients – ok you have to be a good drinker – you know they can drink till the 12 oclock midnight and still have a meeting at in the early morning the next day. You have to be energetic then you can to work with them.

Because of its good photographing function  Because of it’s great camera – this is the only reason. I switched to H because the new iPhone is too expensive and its not value for money the price tag doesn’t match the value.

Add a subject and verb to every sentence even if the NOUN+VERB is “This is”

Pronunciation

says / SEZ

unfair / NOT UN-FAIH / UN-FARE

woman / WUH-MIN

women / WIH-MIN

Vocabulary

“figure it out” / find a solution / work it out

we were bumping head / we constantly had conflict / always fighting

e.g. If you have two competitive people, usually they will bump heads.

cocky / arrogant or too proud

“things went down hill very quickly” / things started to go very badly

“things went south” / things were good then they went really bad

e.g. But the project went south.

“coming under scrutiny” / people are now looking closely at you or your behavior

let up / to stop

e.g. The rain finally let up.

thwart / to stop something from happening

enabled / to make something possible

e.g. I have a cousin who always does bad behavior but her parents still give her money – they are enabling her bad decisions.

A former congressional aide to Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) says former vice president Joe Biden touched her inappropriately at a 2009 fundraiser, the second woman to make allegations against Biden in the past week.

Biden has long been known for his intimate physical style. But the appropriateness of his behavior toward women is coming under scrutiny as he nears an announcement on a potential 2020 presidential bid. Late last week, Lucy Flores, a former Nevada state legislator, penned an essay in which she said that Biden acted inappropriately toward her at a 2014 campaign event and made her feel uncomfortable.

In a statement Monday, the former congressional aide, Amy Lappos, said she was speaking out about her own experience because she was disappointed in the “ridiculously dismissive” way Democrats — including Biden — had responded to Flores’s account.

“Biden’s statement in response to Lucy’s article was not only disturbing, it was disgusting,” Lappos said. “I stand by Lucy and any woman with the courage to come forward regarding inappropriate behavior by men.”

In a comment Sunday on a “Connecticut Women in Politics” Facebook post that shared Flores’s story, Lappos said Biden “did something similar to me” at a Greenwich, Conn., fundraiser for Himes.

“I can speak from experience when I say it’s an incredibly uncomfortable situation and not at all acceptable,” Lappos wrote under the pseudonym “Alice Paul,” according to the Hartford Courant. “We need to hold our men to the same standards we hold all men.”

The “Alice Paul” account includes photos of Lappos and has pictures in common with Lappos’s personal Facebook account.

Lappos, 43, went on the record about the alleged incident in an interview Monday with the Courant. She said Biden, then 66, moved toward her while she was in the kitchen with several other volunteers at the private residence where the fundraiser was being held.

“It wasn’t sexual, but he did grab me by the head,” she told the newspaper. “He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth.”

Lappos worked as an aide to Himes from January 2009 to November 2016, primarily as a constituent services representative and grants coordinator, according to Legistorm, a congressional research firm. Her LinkedIn page lists her as the owner of Moma Grants, a freelance grant-writing service.

A Biden spokesman referred The Washington Post to a statement the former vice president issued on Sunday, in which Biden said he had offered “countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort” during his years in public life,“and not once — never — did I believe I acted inappropriately.”

U.S. national security officials are planning for a future in which the Chinese firm Huawei will have a major share of the advanced global telecommunications market, and have begun to think about how to thwart potential espionage and disruptive cyberattacks enabled by interconnected networks.

“We are going to have to figure out a way in a 5G world that we’re able to manage the risks in a diverse network that includes technology that we can’t trust,” said Sue Gordon, the deputy to the director of the U.S. intelligence community. “We’re just going to have to figure that out.”

Officials have not let up on their campaign to urge other countries to block Huawei — a firm with close ties to the Chinese government — from their burgeoning 5G networks, which will power everything from self-driving cars to military operations.